The Winds of Wonder

A path that has never been trod

On 26 November 1960 the Mother discloses the following:

“You see, I’m doing the sadhana really along a … a path that has never been trod by anyone.

Sri Aurobindo did it … in principle. But he gave the charge of doing it in the body to me.”

Things were not easy, even as the hostile forces were fighting the last survival battle with all their ferocity and their might. It was “do or die” for them. But there was the willed decree of the Supreme and every occult-yogic detail had to be employed for its terrestrial realisation.

The attacks were directly on the Mother herself, she who was their first enemy. But the incarnate Supreme was physically present and they could not succeed in their gruesome plans and designs.

Sri Aurobindo had earlier protected her on a number of occasions also. But this time it “seemed to create very great BODILY difficulties for him.” They discussed the matter a great deal, the Mother even proposing that if one of them had to go she would do so.

Certainly, this was not acceptable to him: “It can’t be you, because you alone can do the material thing.” It is Shakti alone who can deal with the thing. The Mother accepts:

“And that was all.

He said nothing more. He forbade me to leave my body. That’s all. ‘It is absolutely forbidden. You can’t, you must remain’.”

That is the luminous and forceful occult of Sri Aurobindo’s withdrawal on 5 December 1950.

“After that (this took place early in 1950), he gradually … You see, he let himself fall ill. For he knew quite well that should he say ‘I must go,’ I would not have obeyed him, and I would have gone. For according to the way I felt, he was much more indispensable than I. But he saw the matter from the other side. And he knew that I had the power to leave my body at will. So he didn’t say a thing, he didn’t say a thing right to the very last minute …

Once or twice I ‘heard’ certain things about him and I told him (for I told him all I saw or heard), and I said that I was … that these suggestions were coming from the Enemy and that I was violently fighting against them. Then he looked at me—twice—he looked at me, nodded his head and smiled. And that’s all. Nothing more was said. ‘How strange!’”

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But it “seemed to create very great BODILY difficulties for him.” We have absolutely no idea about those “very great BODILY difficulties”. We will never know the occult of it. Perhaps these could be countered more successfully only by going into the subtle-physical with all the supramental light and force gathered in it.